LONG ARM OF THE LAW

Southland Times, Issue 20616, 15 October 1928, Page 2

LONG ARM OF THE LAW

SEQUEL TO AUCKLAND HOLD-UP. YOUNG MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 11. As a sequel to the hold-up of Mr and Mrs George Pearce on Mount Eden road on the night of September 28, Norman Travers, aged 22, and Roy Edward Trask, aged 22, were charged in the Police Court with robbery with personal violence and with stealing £6 in money, etc. Both were further charged with the wrongful conversion of a car valued at £2OO. Trask, alone, was charged with stealing two gallons of petrol. They were committed for trial on the major charge and each was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for conversion, Trask also getting fourteen days for the benzine theft. Joseph Henry Trask, the father of Roy, was jointly charged with his son and Travers with unlawfully converting at Hamilton a car (hired at Auckland the morning after the robbery) in which all three were subsequently arrested at Te Kuiti. He pleaded guilty and was sent to gaol for six months with an additional three months for obtaining £33 18/6 by valueless cheques.